The Oxford handbook of later medieval archaeology in Britain / edited by Christopher Gerrard, Alejandra Gutierrez.
Gerrard, Christopher M., editor.; Gutiérrez, Alejandra (Gutiérrez López), editor.
2018
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Title
The Oxford handbook of later medieval archaeology in Britain / edited by Christopher Gerrard, Alejandra Gutierrez.
ISBN
9780191806223 (electronic book)
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Call Number
DA175
Dewey Decimal Classification
941.01
Summary
The Middle Ages are all around us in Britain. The Tower of London and the castles of Scotland and Wales are mainstays of cultural tourism and an inspiring cross-section of later medieval finds can now be seen on display in museums across England, Scotland, and Wales. This handbook provides an overview of the archaeology of the later Middle Ages in Britain between AD 1066 and 1550. Chapters cover topics ranging from later medieval objects, human remains, archaeological science, standing buildings and sites such as castles and monasteries, to the well-preserved relict landscapes which still survive.
Note
The Middle Ages are all around us in Britain. The Tower of London and the castles of Scotland and Wales are mainstays of cultural tourism and an inspiring cross-section of later medieval finds can now be seen on display in museums across England, Scotland, and Wales. This handbook provides an overview of the archaeology of the later Middle Ages in Britain between AD 1066 and 1550. Chapters cover topics ranging from later medieval objects, human remains, archaeological science, standing buildings and sites such as castles and monasteries, to the well-preserved relict landscapes which still survive.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Access limited to authorized users.
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Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 30, 2018).
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Gerrard, Christopher M., editor.
Gutiérrez, Alejandra (Gutiérrez López), editor.
Series
Oxford handbooks.
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Print version: 9780198744719
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Embracing new perspectives / C. P. Graves, Christopher Gerrard
Perceptions of medieval settlement / Mark Gardiner, Susan Kilby
Peasant buildings / Richard Suggett
Agricultural buildings / Niall Brady
Overview: Living in medieval towns / Keith D. Lilley
Urban housing / John Schofield
Medieval shops / Abby Antrobus
Urban infrastructure / Gareth Dean
Overview: Castles and elite landscapes / Oliver Creighton
Medieval palaces and royal houses / Tom Beaumont James
Medieval battlefield archaeology / Glenn Foard
The written evidence for the later Middle Ages / Simon A. Draper
Quarrying and extractive industries / David Parsons
The medieval workshop / David A. Hinton
Water and wind power / Colin Rynne
Old money, new methods: coins and later medieval archaeology / Richard Kelleher
Overview: Church and landscape c. 1100-1550 / Richard Morris
The medieval monastery and its landscape / James Bond
The medieval parish church: architecture, furnishings, and fittings / Richard Fawcett
An archaeology of pilgrimage / Peter Yeoman
The devotional image in late medieval England / Kate Giles, Aleksandra McClain
Cooking, dining, and drinking / Hugh Willmott
Overview: Geographies of medieval Britain / Grenville Astill
Overview: the medieval senses / Emma J. Wells
Birth and childhood / Sally Crawford
Dressing the body / Eleanor R. Standley
Gender and space in the later Middle Ages / Amanda Richardson
Medieval medicine, public health, and the medieval hospital / Martin Huggon
Later medieval death and burial / Christopher Daniell
The medieval afterlife / Simon Roffey
Overview: trade and other contacts in late medieval Britain / Alejandra Gutiérrez
Looking west: Ireland in the Middle Ages / Terry B. Barry
Looking south-west: France in the Middle Ages / Claire Hanusse
Field systems and the arable fields / Ronan O'Donnell
Looking north-east: Southern Scandinavia in the Middle Ages / Else Roesdahl
Looking south: Spain and Portugal in the Middle Ages / Christopher Gerrard, José Avelino Gutiérrez-González
Methods in medieval archaeology / Michael Fradley
The medieval manor house and the moated site / Jill Campbell
Royal and aristocratic andscapes of pleasure / Stephen Mileson
Overview: Medieval industry and commerce / Maureen Mellor
Medieval fishing and fish trade / James H. Barrett
Play and playfulness in late medieval Britain: theory, concept, practice / M. A. Hall
Approaching medieval sacrality / M. A. Hall
Overview: Archaeology and the life-course / Rebecca Gowland, Bennjamin Penny-Mason
Health and well-being: the contribution of the study of human remains to understanding the late medieval period in Britain / Charlotte Roberts, Jelena Bekvalac, Rebecca C. Redfern
London smellwalk around 1450: smelling medieval cities / Holly Dugan
Medieval colour / Michael Huxtable, Ronan O'Donnell
Sound and landscape / Stephen Mileson
Symbols of power / David A. Hinton
The medieval wild / Aleks Pluskowski
Town and countryside / Christopher Dyer
The cathedral / Richard Fawcett
Overview: People and projects / Christopher Gerrard
The archaeobotany of late medieval plant remains: the resource and the research / Lisa Moffett
The animal in late medieval Britain / Louisa Gidney
Medieval graffiti inscriptions / Matthew Champion
A last word: the study of later medieval archaeology / Christopher Gerrard
Coping with disaster / Peter J. Brown
Overview: The form and pattern of medieval settlement / Stephen Rippon, Piers Dixon, Bob Silvester
Rural living 1100-1540 / Christopher Dyer.

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